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asikarwar
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2 months ago

Dashboard Audit

Hello, Has anyone been auditing on Dashboard usage. We have a lot of dashboards and we want to know dashboard which weren't used for over 30 days. I do not see an API for this, is there another to...
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  • Mike_Moniz's avatar
    Mike_Moniz
    2 months ago

    The counter thing is a good idea. If you don't care about tracking users, a widget that loads a webpage you control might work. It would need to allow CORS and need to be careful about browser caching, but might just be as simple as checking the webserver logs to see if the url was accessed at all in the past X days.

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Stuart_Weenig
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LM has a way of tracking that internally, but i don't know if a way within the product to tell since it's not logged to the audit log. Your CSM might be able to pull a report telling you which dashboards are accessed by which users.

You could use a third party counter (think 1992), but since most browsers block 3rd party cookies, it probably wouldn't be very accurate.

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Mike_Moniz
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2 months ago

The counter thing is a good idea. If you don't care about tracking users, a widget that loads a webpage you control might work. It would need to allow CORS and need to be careful about browser caching, but might just be as simple as checking the webserver logs to see if the url was accessed at all in the past X days.

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    Stuart_Weenig
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    2 months ago

    The webserver logs is the way to go. It's trivial for LMers to access that data (through Looker). Unfortunately it's not exposed to customers. It would be a good feature for LM to build in: tracking which are the most used features of LM by which users. Are users going to the alerts page? Which dashboards are they using/not using? Are they looking at maps? How many have UIv4 turned on? etc.